Signal de Botrange (2014-)
Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Imperial Saison Rotating|
Score
6.97
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12 oz. can. Pours a murky, orange color, with a huge, frothy, cream-colored head. The nose is buttery chardonnay, graham cracker, cane sugar, lemon cream, and black pepper. Sweet and yeasty, with a light acidity. This is a big and bold, nicely treat saison. Fun.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Highland 11-19-2014
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at SBWF. Cloudy orange with white head. Heavily oaky and woody with some light vinous grapes, cloves, yeast and leather. Barrel forward and dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at WTF 3. Pours a cloudy orange with thick white head that lasts. The aroma is yeast, oak, vanilla bean. Medium body, oak, vanilla, grape, vinous, dry finish, very good.
Earlier Rating: 8/10/2016 Total Score: 3.7
On tap at The Hay Merchant. Pours a hazy gold with medium whitehead that lasts. The aroma is yeast, fruity malt, bubblegum. Medium body, fruity malt, citrus, light finish, very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle pours out a amber brown topped with a small sand head. Nose is big oak wine barrel some grapefruit wine notes a little funk and malts. Taste is more of the heavy oak wine barrels and a nice spice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Barrel aged in Chardonnay this farmhouse saison is a nice bright gold. The aroma delivers the Chardonnay character as well as mild saison notes. I felt it had a crisp clean flavor of pears, peaches, chardonnay. It was really well done and drank very easily. I tried to buy a bottle at the fest but alas they wouldn’t sell me any...
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
750mL bottle from Ernest (thanks), drunk 10/23/15.
Big white head is rocky and well-retained. Rich maize colored beer with notes of orange and tangerine skin. Clarity is high, leaving sediment behind.
Huge grape juice, oak, vanilla, rich honey/caramel malt and strong, heavily fruity esters ranging from pineapple to peach/mango. Light alcohol obvious, with a bit of bubblegum and light clove dryness on the end, as well. Hmmm, well, this is certainly....bold.
Rich, malty honey and caramel character falls pretty well in the middle of the sweet/dry spectrum. On one hand, it could definitely be more dry, but on the other, as this is obviously intended to be a very flavorful beer, it certainly does need some residual sugar to balance everything. The body is full, with ample carbonation and a supple, malty texture. No problems there and the chardonnay character is certainly prominent, though not astringent or heavily buttery (tending more towards a white grape juice-like flavor). Vanilla, lightly acidic oak and alcohol mix with esters to provide quite a strong finish. Peach, clove, light bubble gum and lots of doughiness. At 10%, the stuff is pretty aggressive and though very rough around the edges, things could be ALOT worse.